How To Install python-exconsole on Debian 10

Learn how to install python-exconsole on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python-exconsole is emergency/postmortem Python console

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-exconsole on Debian 10.

What is python-exconsole

python-exconsole is:

python-exconsole is an emergency/postmortem console for Python.

It provides a backtrace and a Python console to inspect the situation when unhandled exception has occured.

There are three methods to install python-exconsole on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install python-exconsole Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install python-exconsole using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python-exconsole

Install python-exconsole Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install python-exconsole using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install python-exconsole

Install python-exconsole Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install python-exconsole using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python-exconsole

How To Uninstall python-exconsole on Debian 10

To uninstall only the python-exconsole package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python-exconsole

Uninstall python-exconsole And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python-exconsole and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-exconsole

Remove python-exconsole Configurations and Data

To remove python-exconsole configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python-exconsole

Remove python-exconsole configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove python-exconsole configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-exconsole

Dependencies

python-exconsole have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-exconsole package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.